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Tracking Privilege‐Preserving Epistemic Pushback in Feminist and Critical Race Philosophy ClassesHypatia 32 (4): 876-892. 2017.Classrooms are unlevel knowing fields, contested terrains where knowledge and ignorance are produced and circulate with equal vigor, and where members of dominant groups are accustomed to having an epistemic home-terrain advantage. My project focuses on one form of resistance that regularly surfaces in discussions with social-justice content. Privilege-preserving epistemic pushback is a variety of willful ignorance that many members of dominant groups engage in when asked to consider both the li…Read more
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Book Notes (review)Ethics 113 (4): 923-928. 2003.It's surprising that contemporary moral philosophers have not thought more about food. The rapidly expanding industrialized landscape of modern western agribusiness raises moral concerns about large-scale livestock production, the increased usage of genetically modified crops, and the effects these now common practices may have on long-term environmental and human health. Here Pence argues that biotechnology is more helpful than harmful, on the ground that it will abate world hunger. Positioning…Read more
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Book review: Chris Cuomo. The philosopher queen: Feminist essays on war, love, and knowledge. Lanham, md.: Rowman and Littlefield publishers, inc., 2003 (review)Hypatia 20 (3): 218-221. 2005.The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge. By Chris Cuomo. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. The Philosopher Queen is a powerful illustration of what Cherríe Moraga calls a "theory in the flesh." That is, theorizing from a place where "physical realities of our lives—our skin color, the land or concrete we grow up on, our sexual longings—all fuse to create a politic [and, I would add, an ethics, spirituality, and epistemology] born out of necess…Read more
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Naomi Zack Women of Color and Philosophy. Malden, Mass., Blackwell Publishers, 2000 (review)Hypatia 20 (1): 220-225. 2005.Naomi Zack’s unique and important collection, Women of Color and Philosophy, brings together for the first time the voices of twelve philosophers who are women of color. She begins with the premise that the work of women of color who do philosophy in academe, but who do not write exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, merits a collection of its own. It’s rare that women of color pursue philosophy in academic contexts; Zack counts at most thirty among the ten thousand members of th…Read more
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The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and IgnoranceLexington Books. 2021.Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits of whiteness and its attendant privileges, however, make it difficult for white people to feel the damage. White people are more comfortable thinking about white supremacy in terms of what p…Read more
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White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-Racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem?Lexington Books. 2014.
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The Feminist Philosophy ReaderMcGraw Hill. 2008.
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The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of PhilosophyLexington Books. 2010.
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Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace (edited book)BRILL. 2002.
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On Gaslighting and Epistemic Injustice: Editor's IntroductionHypatia 35 (4): 667-673. 2020.Social justice demands that we attend carefully to the epistemic terrains we inhabit as well as to the epistemic resources we summon to make our lived experiences tangible to one another. Not all epistemic terrains are hospitable—colonial projects landscaped a good portion of our epistemic terrain long before present generations moved across it. There is no shared epistemicterra firma,no level epistemic common ground where knowers share credibility and where a diversity of hermeneutical resource…Read more
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Newark LessonsPhilosophy Today 62 (4): 1213-1217. 2018."Newark Lessons" offers a response to the harassment and threats that George Yancy faced after the publication of his "Dear White America" letter, published in the New York Times on 24 December, 2015. The Newark Lessons are an autobiographical account how the white community of my childhood used the Newark Race Riots/Rebellions as a trope to teach me about the value of whiteness. I discuss the damaging effects of these lessons in terms of the collateral damage of white supremacy for white peo…Read more
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Interview: (Comments on White Privilege and Metaphysical Comfort)In Bailey Alison (ed.), On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, . 2017.
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"On Anger, Silence and Epistemic Injustice"Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84 93-115. 2018.Abstract: If anger is the emotion of injustice, and if most injustices have prominent epistemic dimensions, then where is the anger in epistemic injustice? Despite the question my task is not to account for the lack of attention to anger in epistemic injustice discussions. Instead, I argue that a particular texture of transformative anger – a knowing resistant anger – offers marginalized knowers a powerful resource for countering epistemic injustice. I begin by making visible the anger that satu…Read more
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Tracking Privilege‐Preserving Epistemic Pushback in Feminist and Critical Race Philosophy ClassesHypatia 32 (4): 876-892. 2017.Classrooms are unlevel knowing fields, contested terrains where knowledge and ignorance are produced and circulate with equal vigor, and where members of dominant groups are accustomed to having an epistemic home-terrain advantage. My project focuses on one form of resistance that regularly surfaces in discussions with social-justice content. Privilege-protective epistemic pushback is a variety of willful ignorance that many members of dominant groups engage in when asked to consider both the li…Read more
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